Category: Current/Contemporary HBCU Baseball News

Fall ball continues as the Tigers of Grambling State have scrimmages planned working on drills in each day’s practice. The Tigers coaching staff has brought in a top recruiting class and Grambling brings back some experienced ballplayers from last year who…

Below is our HBCU baseball list of recent coaching changes as programs head into fall ball and the 2019 season. Both head coaching and assistant coaching position Are listed. To date, here are the changes… LARGE SCHOOL Alabama A&M University…

Southern University Roger Cador has been named to the 2019 Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame Class. Cador is the ninetenth member from Southern University and the first since the induction of Otis Washington and Avery Johnson in 2015. Cador will…

Former Savannah State University baseball player Kyle McGowin was called up from the minor leagues and will soon make his major league debut with the Washington Nationals. McGowin spent the 2018 season in the Nationals farm system, working his way…

The LeMoyne-Owen College Athletic Department has named Patrick Newman as the Magicians head coach of its baseball program. Newman replaced former coach Marcus Smith who resigned at the conclusion of the 2018 season, thus opening the door for Coach Newman’s…

The search for Alabama A&M’s baseball coach is complete. Alabama A&M announced that Manny Lora has been hired as the Bulldogs’ new head baseball coach. “We are really excited to have Manny Lora as our new baseball coach,” Alabama A&M…

Bethune Cookman, after an extensive search, has announced the hiring of Jonathan Hernandez as the third Wildcats baseball coach since the 2012 season. Hernandez replaces Barrett Shaft, acting head coach this past spring filling in for Jason Beverlin who decided…

Manny Lora is the interim head baseball coach at Alabama A&M University handling all baseball related duties for now as the head coaching search continues for the Bulldogs. Manny came to A&M University baseball staff in 2016 as the team’s…

Former North Carolina Central University pitcher Devin Sweet, a four-year starter at NCCU from 2014 – 2018 who set pitching records in wins (18), strikeouts (246), appearances (59) while taking the mound with (41) starts, has signed with the Seattle…